Excarnation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Excarnation is a noun meaning The act of removing flesh.
Meaning
The act of removing flesh.
More Meanings
- The burial practice of removing (or causing to be removed) the flesh and organs of the dead, leaving only the bones, especially the practice of laying out corpses for vultures to strip bare.
Example Sentences
Vultures seem to have been used for a funeral practice of excarnation: after the flesh had been cleaned from the bones, the bones were interred in the shrines.
Word Forms
- excarnations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include exhumation, explantation, excretion, excreting, carnification, exolution.
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